Classic American Novels
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Author | : GREAT. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 9781854350077 |
An illustrated overview of the life and works of a selected number of important writers in the English language from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Author | : J. D. Salinger |
Publisher | : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2024-06-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The Catcher in the Rye," written by J.D. Salinger and published in 1951, is a classic American novel that explores the themes of adolescence, alienation, and identity through the eyes of its protagonist, Holden Caulfield. The novel is set in the 1950s and follows Holden, a 16-year-old who has just been expelled from his prep school, Pencey Prep. Disillusioned with the world around him, Holden decides to leave Pencey early and spend a few days alone in New York City before returning home. Over the course of these days, Holden interacts with various people, including old friends, a former teacher, and strangers, all the while grappling with his feelings of loneliness and dissatisfaction. Holden is deeply troubled by the "phoniness" of the adult world and is haunted by the death of his younger brother, Allie, which has left a lasting impact on him. He fantasizes about being "the catcher in the rye," a guardian who saves children from losing their innocence by catching them before they fall off a cliff into adulthooda. The novel ends with Holden in a mental institution, where he is being treated for a nervous breakdown. He expresses some hope for the future, indicating a possible path to recovery..
Author | : D. H. Lawrence |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521550161 |
Landmark volume of D. H. Lawrence's writings on American literature including major essays on Poe, Hawthorne, Melville and Whitman.
Author | : John Williams |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Adultery |
ISBN | : 1590179285 |
"Born the child of a poor farmer in Missouri, William Stoner is urged by his parents to study new agriculture techniques at the state university. Digging instead into the texts of Milton and Shakespeare, Stoner falls under the spell of the unexpected pleasures of English literature, and decides to make it his life. Stoner is the story of that life"--
Author | : William Edward Burghardt Du Bois |
Publisher | : Graphic Classics (Eureka) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 9780982563045 |
"Great stories and poems from America's earliest Black writers"--Cover.
Author | : John Kennedy Toole |
Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2007-12-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0802197620 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).
Author | : PBS |
Publisher | : Black Dog & Leventhal |
Total Pages | : 944 |
Release | : 2018-08-21 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0316417548 |
A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series. What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series with a 2-hour special in May 2018 revealing America's 100 best-loved novels, determined by a rigorous national survey. Subsequent episodes will air in September and October. Celebrities and everyday Americans will champion their favorite novel and in the finale in late October, America's #1 best-loved novel will be revealed. The Great American Read: The Book of Books will present all 100 novels with fascinating information about each book, author profiles, a snapshot of the novel's social relevance, film or television adaptations, other books and writings by the author, and little-known facts. Also included are themed articles about banned books, the most influential book illustrators, reading recommendations, the best first-lines in literature, and more. Beautifully designed with rare images of the original manuscripts, first-edition covers, rejection letters, and other ephemera, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is a must-have book for all booklovers.
Author | : Various |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-09-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1598531573 |
Collects nine classic science fiction novels from 1953 to 1958.
Author | : Allen Ginsberg |
Publisher | : City Lights Publishers |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1956-06-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780872860179 |
The epigraph for Howl is from Walt Whitman: "Unscrew the locks from the doors!/Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!" Announcing his intentions with this ringing motto, Allen Ginsberg published a volume of poetry which broke so many social...
Author | : Ken Kesey |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2007-11-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101209046 |
An international bestseller and the basis for the hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of the defining works of the 1960s. In this classic novel, Ken Kesey’s hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies the rules at every turn. But this defiance, which starts as a sport, soon develops into a grim struggle, an all-out war between two relentless opponents: Nurse Ratched, backed by the full power of authority, and McMurphy, who has only his own indomitable will. What happens when Nurse Ratched uses her ultimate weapon against McMurphy provides the story’s shocking climax. “BRILLIANT!”—Time “A SMASHING ACHIEVEMENT...A TRULY ORIGINAL NOVEL!”—Mark Schorer “Mr. Kesey has created a world that is convincing, alive and glowing within its own boundaries...His is a large, robust talent, and he has written a large, robust book.”—Saturday Review